Applying an exemplar model to the artificial-grammar task: Inferring grammaticality from similarity

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 550-575

  Jamieson, Randall K ^a   Mewhort, D J K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar; Episodic memory; Global memory model; Implicit learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 65349189930     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802055749     Document Type: Article

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